Word: savinkov
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Soviet charge was based on the confession, probably obtained after torture, of Savinkov at his 1924 trial that Masaryk had given him 200,000 rubles. Historians accept the fact that Masaryk gave money to a number of Russians for a number of reasons: to help them escape to freedom in Western Europe; or for cultural purposes; or to help get Czech troops out of Russia to continue the fight against Germany after the Bolsheviks opted out of World War I. At his trial, Savinkov himself testified that he did not know exactly what the money was to be used...
...feeling had been exacerbated by an article in Moscow's Sovietskaya Rossiya that called Dr. Thomas G. Masaryk, founder of the Czechoslovak republic and the country's most revered historical figure, an "absolute scoundrel." The journal charged that Masaryk in 1918 paid a Russian terrorist named Boris Savinkov 200,000 rubles (then worth some $10,000) to kill Lenin. Masaryk's memory is enjoying a fresh outpouring of honor and homage in the wave of current reform, and Czechoslovakia's press reacted angrily to the Soviet charge. "An insult without parallel," said the newspaper...